Clarity From The Skies
Posted on | January 11, 2006 at 5:41 pm | 9 Comments
Hi, it’s been awhile. How do you do? How have you been? The Blogging Well has run a bit dry here at FlasshePoint, plus I’ve been kinda busy. And just waiting around for something interesting to happen to me. Wait… is that it…? Nope, only a particularly loud burp.
Still no solution to the Magic Clock mystery, but I haven’t had much of a chance to investigate. I kind of like the fact that the temperature reading is from somebody else’s house. Since I’ve already got sensors on my house, I already have a pretty good idea of the temperature right here. This gives me a more complete picture of the climate in the neighborhood. I just wish I knew exactly where it was coming from.
The big news this week is that the Dish Network has announced its latest HDTV plans, which are impressive. Of primary interest to me is the fact they will start carrying the Denver locals in HD by mid-March. This was pretty much what I had been predicting/hoping for in my NiMBY diatribes about the eternally delayed digital supertower on Lookout Mountain (the latest there is that the city of Golden is again talking about seizing the land via an abuse of eminent-domain, an issue which may end up being decided by the Supreme Court). But I don’t have to worry about that now, since I’ll be getting my HD locals over the satellite. I will still follow the story with interest though, of course. Anyway, in order to get the HD locals as well as the other new HD channels Dish will be offering, I will need to upgrade to one of their new Mpeg4 receivers. Luckily, Dish is offering a cheap upgrade path to their new Mpeg2/4 ViP622 HD-DVR for those of us who bought the Mpeg2 PVR-921 boat anchor (which I still have problems with). I will be happy to ditch that abomination, even though I paid a lot of money for it a year ago. The new receiver appears to be less buggy. The prices for the HD programming packages look reasonable, so there appears to be no reason to not upgrade. But we’ll see what happens come April 1st or so.
Speaking of Dish, there was quite a funny report on The Daily Show last night, where Ed Helms talked to the people of Clark, Texas who are renaming their town Dish in order to get free satellite service for 10 years. The main objector to this is the man who founded the town and whom it was named after. However, he didn’t object enough to turn down the free service.
Latre.
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9 Responses to “Clarity From The Skies”
January 11th, 2006 @ 9:13 pm
It’s just a good thing the temperature reading on the Magic Clock isn’t, like, really really hot. Then you’d know exactly where the sensor was…bwah-ha-ha-hah!
January 11th, 2006 @ 10:34 pm
Hell? Arizona?
January 12th, 2006 @ 11:09 am
I think the f’er is talking about a “Fusilli Jerry”.
January 12th, 2006 @ 11:13 am
Hmmm… the sensor’s kinda big and not very pointy.
January 12th, 2006 @ 1:48 pm
Speaking of putting things there that don’t belong there: looky here (video).
January 12th, 2006 @ 4:26 pm
Two things. How did you know about this? And there is no way a doctor that creepy-looking is getting near MY Danger Zone.
January 12th, 2006 @ 6:02 pm
I knew about it from watching the show it appeared on (Attack of the Show on G4TV).
So, you would let a good looking doctor near your “danger zone”?
January 13th, 2006 @ 8:45 am
Sure, especially if they bought me a few drinks and really listened to me.
January 13th, 2006 @ 4:09 pm
You folks have doity minds: I meant Hell, because it’s really…The Clock of Satan! (Thus the evil laugh. Although I suppose if someone somewhere had, errr, put the sensor somewhere where it was in no danger of getting distorted readings due to sunlight, evil laughter might also ensue.)
On a related subject, does anyone know what time zone Hell is in?